The matchmaker
By: Elin Hilderbrand
Publisher: Hodder
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781444724059
Subjects: Fiction; Terminally ill; Man-woman relationships; Friendship; Mate selection
Description: Dabney Kimball Beech, the 48-year-old Director of the Nantucket Chamber of Commerce and fifth generation Nantucketer, has had a lifelong gift of matchmaking (52 couples still together to her credit). But when Dabney discovers she is dying of pancreatic cancer, she sets out to find matches for a few people very close to home: her husband, John Boxmiller Beech, celebrated economist and Harvard professor; her lover, Clendenin Hughes, Pulitzer-winning journalist who lost his arm in Southeast Asia; and her daughter, Agnes, who is engaged to be married to the wrong man. As time slips away from Dabney, she is determined to find matches for those she loves most - but at what cost to her own relationships?.
Notes: First published: [London] : Hodder & Stoughton, 2014.